The Fake is as witty and sharp as it is humane. I fell in love with these characters, and with the fabulist, fabulous heart that animates Whittall's writing."--Jen Silverman, author of We Play Ourselves

"Zoe Whittall has created her most extraordinary, complicated, and lovable characters yet. A beautiful, charismatic liar appears in the lives of vulnerable and grieving people, and her elaborate tales of woe weave everyone into her spell, with tragic results. My perspective on lies and liars has forever changed after reading this book."--Heather O'Neill, author of When We Lost Our Heads

"A compelling, hypnotic tale about grief, lies, and truth that forces us to examine what it means to trust, to deceive, to take advantage, and to be vulnerable. Whittall's latest is a terrifyingly honest look at the lies we tell each other and ourselves that moves at a breakneck pace until its heartbreaking yet inevitable conclusion. I simply couldn't put this book down."--Alicia Elliott, author of A Mind Spread Out on the Ground

"I devoured this wild ride of a novel about one woman's outrageous web of lies and the people caught in it. The Fake is a mordantly funny tale, as enthralling as it is emotionally astute."--Antonia Angress, author of Sirens & Muses

"I read Zoe Whittall's newest novel in a single fevered page-turning session. At once a romp, a cautionary tale, and a thriller, The Fake taps so deeply into our human foibles, into the many ways that loss and grief can make us vulnerable in both friendship and in love. Whittall's writing is as sharp and funny as ever. I loved this novel."--Amy Stuart, author of the Still Mine series

"Cammie is one of my new favorite villains. We have all met a Cammie. Maybe we have even been seduced by one. You will be by this one, and The Fake, Whittall's live-wire novel that had me turning pages late into the night."--Jordan Tannahill, author of The Listeners

"Whittall's knockout novel is a multigenerational riot of grrrlhood and womanhood, a brisk and wistful tour through the ambivalence of responsibility."--Oprah Daily

"The Spectacular is an homage to womanhood, motherhood, sexuality, and queerness as it chronicles the lives of three ferociously strong protagonists who are wildly different from one another."--Associated Press "Zoe Whittall's taut novel

"The Spectacular has all the trappings to become the season's dishiest read. It's also a gem of literary fiction. . . . In Whittall's smart and capable hands, these unconventional women are given the space to experience their full, complicated lives."--BookPage

"An occasionally melancholy often darkly comedic story from a sharply talented writer, The Spectacular is a vibrant homage to living life on your own terms."--PureWow

"Whittall addresses motherhood and autonomy in ways I've never seen done before. A fascinating stunner of a novel, The Spectacular is exactly that: spectacular!"--Kristen Arnett, author of With Teeth

"This book will leave you with a brilliant roar inside your chest--Whittall's prose is afire with the most complex and daring forms of empathy."--Alissa Nutting, author of Made for Love

"Just imagine this book dog-eared, spine-cracked, pages limp from use, living by your bedside--because from the moment you open The Spectacular, you'll happily succumb to a totally absorbing contemporary epic with characters and social worlds that are Edith Wharton-level dimensional but as relatable as your own uncannily recognizable self."--Jordy Rosenberg, author of Confessions of the Fox "This is a novel about how

"No Credit River is a masterful expression of queer heartache."--Amber Dawn, author of My Art Is Killing Me and Other Poems

"No Credit River is a masterful expression of queer heartache. Zoe Whittall writes with self-possessed and unmitigated emotion. She writes both with urgency and the sagacity that comes with a dark-night-of-the-soul level of reflection. The lyrical prose firmly holds the weight of the book's themes. I love the gutsy musicality of the writing. I am particularly moved by Whittall's use of motif and refrain to remind us of the cyclical nature of love and grief and healing." --Amber Dawn, author of My Art Is Killing Me and Other Poems

"In No Credit River, Zoe Whittall pulls us into the eddies of attachment and alienation, eros and elegy, and an ever-present slipstream of love we can never fully inhabit or abandon. The softly abraded memories are mapped by an ars poetica that signals both an experimentation with form and a grief-tempered, arresting honesty. These poems are an exploration of connection and loss, and the bonds that fray and fortify the self. No Credit River is a testament to our queer and artistic communities--profoundly thoughtful, coursing with intelligence." --Ali Blythe, author of Stedfast

"Whittall's return to poetry has been well worth the wait. Call this a collection of prose poems, call it autofiction, call it memoir riddled with metaphor, call it names, call it whatever you want really, as long as you call it. These poems embrace contradiction like lovers who have broken up but still won't let go; they fill the wasteland between the phrases 'nothing is traumatic' and 'everything is traumatic.' No Credit River is one of the most electrifying collections I have read in years." --Hannah Green, author of Xanax Cowboy

"I think No Credit River by Zoe Whittall, deserves all the credit for not just encapsulating the complexities of queer relationships, bisexuality, middle age, or for writing a successful "poetry-prose memoir" hybrid, but for making heartbreak real and anxieties that often get hushed apparent: things that make human beings human, and sad, and vulnerable in tender, moving poems that demand rereading." --The Woodlot

"Nadine Gordimer said that "writing is making sense of life." This, as Whittall writes, is her working to make the most sense of it all." --rob mclennan